The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-04-21
THE EDITORS DESK.
COMMENTS ON TOPICS THAT ARE
INTERESTING THE PEOPLE.
The Chronicle Expresses Its Opinion on
Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.


Passing Public Events and Questions
of Interest Now Before the People.
There is no safety for society at all ex-
cept in standing by law; there is no saliva
ton for any of US except in discipline and
obedience. Hartford Courant.
What is the use of education if it does
not teach us to look on man as man, and
Judge by a nober and more real standard
than the superficial distinctions of socetya'
- Canon Farrar.
Set yourself earnestly TO see what you
We're made to do, and then set yourself
earnestly to do it, and the loftier your
purpose is the more sure you will be to
make the world richer with every enrich
ment of yourself. - Phillips Brooks.
would teach the young not to think of
marriage as the only end and aim Of life;
but l would prepare them for it as for a
sacrament too high and holy to be pro-
famed by a single light word or thought
teach them how to be worthy of it, and
how to wait for it.-[Christian Union.
\ recent decision or the New II Ofk courts
to the effect that cooperative stores make
every individual member liable for the
debts of the concern, will probably have
a good effect. although il will decrease the
number Of such stores. 1t will make all
parties interested watchful and careful.
In the Alabama Legislature a bill was
tn the sale nF honor
within 100 yards of any church. smart
snan. who recognizes the fact that as long
as men want to drink they can, in some
way get whiskey, offered an amendment
prohibiting church members going within
100 yards of a bar room.
The Orphans Friend last week stated that
there was pressing need for contributions
10 the Oxford Orphan Asylum. This
ought not to be. DR.. Dixon ought always
to have money in the bank and contribu-
tons ought TO go forward regularly. Read
er Of the CHRoNIcLE:-If you can spare a
dollar, send to-day to DR.. B. F. Dixon,
oxford, n. c.
The Phoenix is the name Mr.. John b.
Lewis has given his new weekly paper
published at Rocky Mount. 1t succeeds
the Tar River Talker. 1t is probably called
Phoenix to insure immor tally. When
dying -becs1ss-ssslinQuents will pot pay.
+. t can turn itself and a new aid young
Phoenix will rise from its ashes. We wish
it abundant success.
A CORRESPONDENT writes fayoring the
nomination, in 1888, of Maj. G. NJ. Sted-
man for Governor and Mr.. j. &. Buxton
for Lieutenant Governor. He thinks this
would make strong ticket. We do not
publish because the nomination IS long
time off, and we do not desire to open the
way for communications favorlng men fol
the nomination this early.
our admiration for Gov. Lee, of Vir
g1nia. is Increased by reason of the fact
that few days ago he requested two Dl
rectors of the Eastern Insane Asylum te
resign because some of their relatives were
applicants for positions in the Asylum Ht
is determined that there shall be nothing
approaching nepotism in Virginia, anc
he will be appiauded for this action.
The University will draw largely on the
Old Dominion for Commencement enter
tainment this year. 1t is little slngula
that last year the sermon was preached
and the address delivered by residents 0
Brooklyn, n. Y, and that this year Vlr
ginia will furnish both orator and preach
er. Rev. Jas R. Wilson, DID, will preacl
the baccalaureate sermon and Hon. Johl
sGoode deliver the address.
Good society,"" says George Eliot, 81
of very expensive production, requiring
nothing less than wide and arduou
national life condensed in unfragrant
deafening factories, cramping itself II
mines. sweating at furnaces, grinding
hammerins, weaving more or less OF car
bonic acid, or else spread over sheep
walks and scattered in lonely houses an'
huts on the clayey and chalky cornlands
where the rainy days look dreary.'
The time was when ..Will you'- tax
snuff e. was as common among men a
..Wlll YOU smile p in some sections
in Prohibition town of course! But "
doubt if so much money was spent for
then as now, when only women use ii
One drummer told the Charlotte Observe
editor last week that he had sold owe
25.OO6 worth of snuff in North Carolln
in 1ss6-and he was only one of many
Who will say that the old North State
not ..up to snuff p
The day of the overthrow of Mormon
ism is Fastening. Years ago, in the earl
days of this abomnab!e o-caled religion
Joseph Smith pretended to have revela
ton that the saints ought to practice poly
,gamy. A few days ago Joseph Smith, Jr
:, Mormon, spoke at Kirkland, Ohio, i
the famous old temple, and roundly de
nounced polygamy as a tenet of the taitf
He declared that it was an invention {
Brigham Young, and the child of frau
and forgery.
A writer in the Church Messenger con
planned that the Wilmington Star was ''se,
tartan as to ''news, =" and "literary hash.
The editor replies in column editori;
showing that the Star has not been set
tartan. In the excellent reply these &C
mirable words are used, and we quot
them with a hearty endorsement: 81